Public voter records can expose personal data when linked
If the vote you rocked, your personal info can be grokked
Even limited voter rolls can be linked to identify people, research shows
Your voter data could be used against you. A foreign intelligence service that wished to identify the family members of deployed military personnel could do so by cross-referencing public voter record data and social media posts.
An employer who only wanted to hire employees with a specific political affiliation could do so by analyzing the primary ballot history of job applicants.
An identity fraud ring seeking to open credit accounts in the names of other people could identify voters whose mail has been returned (via voter file suspense indicators) to take over those addresses using bogus change-of-address requests.
These scenarios are possible thanks to the ability to link publicly available voter data to other data sets, according to Noah M. Kenney, founder of consultancy Digital 520.
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